StatsBot Slack Notifications: A Catalog of Notification Methods and How They Appear

Overview

Statsbot is a service that integrates with Google Analytics, New Relic, and Mixpanel
to send their data to Slack.

For the integration itself, just press the Add to Slack button in the center of the screen
and follow the various steps as instructed, and you’ll be connected right away.

• It took me about 10 seconds to get it set up.

The folks at Data Hotel put together a setup guide, so here it is for reference.

There are various configuration options, but since I couldn’t tell how each one would actually look
without trying it, I’ve summarized them here.

There are three main settings.

Below is how each setting appears as a notification.

• The data comes from an acquaintance’s EC site.
  There’s some embarrassing data in there, but they kindly granted permission on the condition that they’d adopt StatsBot (^-^)

Metrics

Sessions

• Sessions

1

@Statsbot sessions [today, yesterday, this week, last week, this month, last month, this year]

Users

• Users

1

@Statsbot users [today, yesterday, this week, last week, this month, last month, this year]

Conversions

• Conversions

1

@Statsbot conversions [today, yesterday, this week, last week, this month, last month, this year]

Conversion Rate

• Conversion rate

1

@Statsbot conversion rate [today, yesterday, this week, last week, this month, last month, this year]

Bounce Rate

• Bounce rate

1

@Statsbot bounce rate [today, yesterday, this week, last week, this month, last month, this year]

New Users

• New users

1

@Statsbot new users [today, yesterday, this week, last week, this month, last month, this year]

e.g.) New users this week (compared to last week)

1

@Statsbot new users this week

e.g.) New users today (compared to yesterday)

1

@Statsbot new users today

Alert

– Stay on top of your website traffic –

• Set Alert
  Configure an alert

1

@Statsbot alert [users, conversions, events] [above, below, >, <] NUM

e.g.) Set an alert for when the number of users exceeds 1000

1

@Statsbot alert users > 1000

• List alerts

1

@Statsbot list alerts

• Remove an alert

1

@Statsbot alert remove ID

Reports

Summary

• Summary (users, new users, PV, conversions, conversion rate, events, average session duration (sec))

1

@Statsbot summary [today, yesterday, this week, last week, this month, last month, this year]

Source

• Traffic sources

1

@Statsbot sources [today, yesterday, this week, last week, this month, last month, this year]

Schedule

• Schedule: set the date/time, week, and frequency

1

@Statsbot schedule [summary, sources, status]

• List schedules

1

@Statsbot list schedule

• Remove a schedule

1

@Statsbot unschedule ID